Women in the U.K and the cane

Thanks for the advice.. I'll remember that next time.

I would be more than willing to offer up my own bare Yankee bottom--in the name of science of course--to help test the hypothesis that UK women are "uniquely capable of enduring the pure agony of the cane" against the null hypothesis that Yankee women and UK women are equally capable of enduring the bite of the cane.

Opening up the experiment to volunteers such as myself, I fear, might garner a disproportionate number of us who are predisposed to having percussive implements treat our bottoms as if they are snare drums, and as a consequence, render the results of the study less than totally accepted in the scientific community.

I would be happy to offer my services to attend to the paperwork in the room in which the caning occurs, under the trifling condition that my desk faces the caning bench.

Oh, cindy2, you realise you would need witnesses? Ten thousand of the undersigned are queuing for the privilege.
Snare drums provide a surface that is resonant, but exceedingly flat. I'm sure yours would be infinitely more interesting.

Ah, this is not so dear Cindy, because we must assume that all those offering their bare Yankee or otherwise bottoms to be equally inured to the particular conditions of this study, since the subjects whose bottoms are not regularly exposed to canes will presumably be exposed to other implements and thus in fact minimise experimental inaccuracy.


The correct way to ensure that any experimental error is minimised is to increase the data set, which can easily be effected by ensuring/requiring that ALL women members here participate in the study.

Aye, there seems to be a game afoot. Now that we have volunteer recipients for this purely scientific experiment, who do we have offering their services, for free of course, as canesmen or caneswomen? Experts only please. No novices or amateurs need apply; the targets are far too valuable!

I suspect there may be far too many confounding variables to be able to reject the null hypothesis and accept the research hypothesis but hell, why not

Say WHAT?

Well if you are going to conduct an experiment, you have to take these things into account!!

I dunno. The experiment sounded pretty fun to me, even without those things (as much as I love statistics!).

It just might be a good time to start establishing some rules to ensure that the results are valid. All canings should be applied to the bare bottom. Agreed? Should recipients assume positions other than simply being put over a caning bench or a table purposely designed for caning? What about the touch-your-toes position or lying face down on a bed with piled-up pillows raising the lovely bottom up at a most convenient angle for receiving the rod. What about the number of strokes and should they all be delivered in the traditional British sets of six? Most importantly, which types of canes should be used? I am open to any suggestions. Let's get the ball rolling on this. Oh, yes...I almost forgot...who is going to evaluate the findings? Let us always keep in mind that these proceedings are being conducted in the pure pursuit of science. They should never be allowed to evolve into just another caning competition.